{"id":2153,"date":"2009-08-31T07:55:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T11:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2009-08-31T08:04:52","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T12:04:52","slug":"mccain-torture-violated-law-and-helped-the-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/08\/31\/mccain-torture-violated-law-and-helped-the-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain: Torture Violated Law And Helped The Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For what its worth, and that&#8217;s not much, this video is John McCain&#8217;s latest take on our use of torture.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 344px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"425\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MD1x_aafc7Y&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MD1x_aafc7Y&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>We committed torture that was approved at the highest levels of government despite the fact that we have signed treaties and passed laws against it.  Somehow, McCain thinks that without imposing any penalties on the guilty we can assure the world that this will never happen again.  I wish he had been asked how he thought that those assurances would be believed by anybody, much less our adversaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For what its worth, and that&#8217;s not much, this video is John McCain&#8217;s latest take on our use of torture. We committed torture that was approved at the highest levels of government despite the fact that we have signed treaties and passed laws against it. Somehow, McCain thinks that without imposing any penalties on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}